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Month: August 2010

  • The Tapestry of Walter White’s Contradictions [Book Review]

    The Tapestry of Walter White’s Contradictions [Book Review] Sewanee Review Volume 118, Number 3, Summer 2010 pages lxxxii-lxxxiv E-ISSN: 1934-421X Print ISSN: 0037-3052 Sanford Pinsker, Emeritus Professor of English Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Tom Dyja. “Walter White: The Dilemma of Black identity in America”.  The Library of African American Biography.  Lanham, Maryland: Ivan R. Dee Publishsers,…

  • 1111 ENG 126: Racial Passing, Black and White

    1111 ENG 126: Racial Passing, Black and White The College of Saint Rose Albany, New York Fall 2009 Eurie Dahn, Assistant Professor of English In this course, we will analyze depictions of racial passing in American literature. In particular, we will examine narratives where African Americans “pass” for white and vice versa. While the popularity…

  • Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in America

    The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him “the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington.” For more than two decades, White, as secretary of the NAACP, was perhaps the nation’s most visible and most powerful African-American leader.

  • Take One Candle, Light a Room: A Novel

    Take One Candle, Light a Room: A Novel Pantheon Books an Imprint of Random House 2010-10-12 336 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-307-37914-6 (0-307-37914-0) Susan Straight, Professor of Creative Writing University of California, Riverside Fantine Antoine is a travel writer, a profession that keeps her happily away from her southern California home most of the time. When…

  • Microaggressions and Marginality: Manifestation, Dynamics, and Impact

    Microaggressions and Marginality: Manifestation, Dynamics, and Impact Wiley July 2010 360 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-470-49139-3 Edited By: Derald Wing Sue, Professor of Psychology and Education Teachers College, Columbia University A landmark volume exploring covert bias, prejudice, and discrimination with hopeful solutions for their eventual dissolution Exploring the psychological dynamics of unconscious and unintentional expressions of…

  • Race Mixture: Boundary Crossing in Comparative Perspective

    In this article, we examine a large, interdisciplinary, and somewhat scattered literature, all of which falls under the umbrella term race mixture. We highlight important analytical distinctions that need to be taken into account when addressing the related, but separate, social phenomena of intermarriage, miscegenation, multiracial identity, multiracial social movements, and race-mixture ideologies.

  • La China Poblana and Other Constructions of Asian Latinos/as

    La China Poblana and Other Constructions of Asian Latinos/as Clave: Counterdisciplinary Notes on Race, Power & the State A Project of LatCrit Inc. and Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico Summer 2006 22 pages Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown University She…

  • Crossing Race and Nationality: The Racial Formation of Asian Americans 1852-1965

    Crossing Race and Nationality: The Racial Formation of Asian Americans 1852-1965 Monthly Review December 2005 Bob Wing Bob Wing was part of the first wave of Asian-American activists in the late 1960s. He was founding editor of the antiwar newspaper, War Times,and of the racial justice magazine, ColorLines, and is one of the national leaders…

  • Mexipino: A History of Multiethnic Identity and the Formation of the Mexican and Filipino Communities of San Diego, 1900-1965

    Mexipino: A History of Multiethnic Identity and the Formation of the Mexican and Filipino Communities of San Diego, 1900-1965 (From T-RACES: a Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California’s Exclusionary Spaces) University of California, Santa Barbara June 2007 488 pages Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College…

  • Between Hoax and Hope: Miscegenation and Nineteenth-Century Interracial Romance

    Between Hoax and Hope: Miscegenation and Nineteenth-Century Interracial Romance Literature Compass Volume 3, Issue 4 (July 2006) pages 648–657 DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00345.x Katharine Nicholson Ings, Associate Professor of English Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana This essay surveys recent scholarship on interracial romance during the nineteenth century using the hoax Miscegenation pamphlet of 1863 as a lens.…